CVE-2015-2666
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_matching_model_microcode function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges by constructing a crafted microcode header and leveraging root privileges for write access to the initrd.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f84598bd7c851f8b0bf8cd0d7c3be0d73c432ff4
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153329.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1534.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/18
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032414